Antigravity 2.0 launched a redesigned IDE and users are rejecting it. Bugs, poor UX, broken model support, and aggressive Gemini token quota consumption are the core complaints. The feedback is not mixed. It is overwhelmingly negative.
The more damaging detail buried in this piece: evidence suggests Antigravity's own developers are not using their product for their actual work. That is the signal worth paying attention to. Google's Google I/O showcase also comes under scrutiny here, with the argument that its sprawling, incoherent product surface may actually be a structural advantage in the AI race, not a weakness. Meta cut 8,000 jobs while posting record revenue, and the one group spared was the data labelers. Anthropic is paying $15 billion per year for SpaceX compute.
Read the full piece for the breakdown of which specific skills a Google Distinguished Engineer says will get you hired at a frontier lab in 2026, and for the deeper argument about why Google's chaos might be the right strategy right now.
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